On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> I say that a filesystem is an eventually-consistent key/value database.
Yes!
> The keys are the filenames and the values are all big BLOBs, specifically
> the file content. Filesystems also have a hierarchical keyspace, which is
> an extension from the usual key/value concept, but it is still key/value.
POSIX semantics are such that it's easiest for me to think of the
filesystem namespace as a set of {parent_inode_number, name,
inode_number} rows, with a typical hierarchical self-join relation.
Nico
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